The Road To Alice's Restaurant - Day 7, NOTHING

Here we are at the End Of The Road -- at the tip of Cape Cod, past Provincetown, MA at the end of US-6. We took this just about sunset, after riding a couple of miles from our hotel. It's the only riding we've done today to speak of, and as you can see we did it in shorts (got to watch that primary cover! Gets a wee bit warm). The weather has been most pleasant, in the 80s, and a nice breeze coming in off of the Cape. Evening is nice especially.

We essentially did NOTHING today. Or at least tried to do nothing, I did have a few e-mails to answer and some work to do -- the Internet access here is in the lobby of this hotel, not in the rooms so I have to schlep the computer downstairs to work or to post this update. Cell phone access is spotty as well. My driver's license got here today too! Now I'm "legal" again and don't have to worry about getting pulled over or getting on the plane home. Mary had it sent overnight from Corning. We spent a fair amount of time laying by the pool getting tan and reading. The hotel we are in has a big Tea Dance every day at 4pm so they clear the pool deck and have the party there. Surprisingly the beach itself at the hotel is not that nice, nor is it anywhere along Provincetown, so most everyone stays in the pool deck areas. The nicer "beaches" are outside in the Cape Cod National Sea Shore, where the road ends and it's grassy and somewhat sandy, and what I'd pictured the Cape looking like before I got here.

Provincetown reminds me very much of Key West like I said yesterday, it's a beach town at the end of the road -- lots of "characters" who kind of fell off the face of the earth and landed here. Like the guy who came here 15 years ago and has been peddling a ped-a-cab ever since and a few illegal substances on the side. Or the old lady with fire red hair who runs the post office and refused to mail a box of our unwashed laundry we were shipping home unless we handed it to her personally and not buy stamps and put it in the mail box later.


Also like Key West, it's a compact little town, everything is walking distance, lots of shops (t-shirt ones being the most predominant), and a party town atmosphere. Even on the motorcycles its tough to get around. We had a great dinner of fresh Halibut, and will walk down the road to get an ice cream here shortly.

Tomorrow we'll head out fairly early to give us time to get off of the Cape and get through Boston and head up into Maine. We've spoken to a number of folks here and have been getting some wonderful suggestions of where to go in Maine and how to get there. The weather looks mixed -- with a chance of thundershowers, otherwise it says sunny and 70s, which beats the upper 90s we are hearing about back home in Seattle.

From the End of The Road in Provincetown, MA

Gary and Tony